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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Trump is counting on his base to endorse his increasingly open law-breaking. It may not end well. Trump’s public […]

John Feffer

Iraq
Iraq protests expose the crisis in the regime’s integrity

Iraq protests expose the crisis in the regime’s integrity

By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – A third wave of protests in Iraq, following those in 2015 and 2018, continues to shake the three pillars of […]

Middle East Monitor

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Is Trump's Syria Policy about to Loose 12,000 ISIL Terrorists on the World?

Is Trump’s Syria Policy about to Loose 12,000 ISIL Terrorists on the World?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tessa Fox at Al Jazeera writes that Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. special operations forces from northern Syria in expectation […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century

High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century

(Tomdispatch.com ) – There is blood in the water and frenzied sharks are closing in for the kill. Or so they think. From the time […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria opens way for dangerous Middle East power play

Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria opens way for dangerous Middle East power play

By Tony Walker | – US President Donald Trump’s precipitate announcement he was withdrawing American forces from northeast Syria to enable Turkey to assert its […]

The Conversation

Houthi
Is Najran the Saudi Frontline in its Failing Yemen War, or its Achilles Heel?

Is Najran the Saudi Frontline in its Failing Yemen War, or its Achilles Heel?

By Omar Ahmed | – The 14th century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun is famed for his treatise Al-Muqqadimah and is regarded as “the father of […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Winners and Losers from Trump throwing Syrian Kurds under the Bus

Winners and Losers from Trump throwing Syrian Kurds under the Bus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The reasons for which the Washington Establishment is appalled at Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of US special operations troops from northern […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Lots of Countries have Enriched Uranium - How Iran's Program Fell on the Wrong Side of History

Lots of Countries have Enriched Uranium – How Iran’s Program Fell on the Wrong Side of History

By Joseph O’Mahoney | – As tensions remain at fever pitch between Tehran and Washington, Iran continues to breach limits agreed in the 2015 Iran […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s political and personal reputation is in shreds

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s political and personal reputation is in shreds

Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – Israel’s General Election two weeks ago has presented it with its second major political deadlock this year. The […]

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